Institutes of American Law, Band 2R.E. Peterson, 1854 |
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action afterward agent annexed appointed arise assignment attorney authority Book bound called chap chattels choses in action civil committed common law considered contract conveyance court of equity covenant coverture created creditor curtesy damages death debt debtor deed descendants devise discharge dissolution dower easement effect emblements entitled estate tail executed executor fee simple fee tail feoffment firm fraud freehold given grant grantor heirs hereditaments husband incorporeal hereditaments inheritance injury intention interest John joint tenants land lease lessee lessor liable limited Litt ment nuisance obligation owner particular estate Partn partners partnership party payment personal property plaintiff possession prescription principal real estate remainder remedy rent requisite revocation rule SECTION 2.-OF seised seisin slander statute statute of frauds surety tenants in common thing third persons tion trespass trust unless vested void waste Watts Wend wife words
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Seite 87 - Smith, he who takes a moiety of all the profits indefinitely shall, by operation of law, be made liable to losses, if losses arise, upon the principle that, by taking a part of the profits, he takes from the creditors a part of that fund which is the proper security to them for the payment of their debts.
Seite 318 - And therefore on a feoffment to A and his heirs, to the use of B and his heirs...
Seite 544 - That any person or persons having discovered or invented any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement on any art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter...
Seite 25 - That an act done, for another, by a person not assuming to act for himself, but for such other person, though without any precedent authority whatever, becomes the act of the principal, if subsequently ratified by him, is the known and well-established rule of law.
Seite 318 - ... of and in the like estates as they have in the use, trust or confidence : and that the estate of the person so seised to uses shall be deemed to be in him or them that have the use, in such quality, manner, form and condition, as they had before in the use.
Seite 544 - States, or resident therein,) shall be liable to suffer and pay to the author or proprietor, all damages occasioned by such injury...
Seite 301 - An estate in reversion is the residue of an estate left in the grantor, to commence in possession after the determination of some particular estate granted out by him.
Seite 294 - ... or heirs in tail, (either immediately, without the intervention of any mean estate of freehold between his freehold and the subsequent limitation to his heirs, or mediately, that is, with the interposition of some such mean estate,) there such subsequent limitation to the heirs or heirs in tail vests immediately in the ancestor and does not remain in contingency or abeyance, with this...
Seite 508 - A libel is a malicious publication, expressed either in printing or writing, or by signs or pictures, tending either to blacken the memory of one who is dead, or the reputation of one who is alive, and expose him to public hatred, contempt or ridicule.
Seite 175 - ... it, or a title to some exclusive enjoyment. He has no property in the water itself, but a simple usufruct while it passes along. Aqua currit et debet currere ut currere solebat, is the language of the law.